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CVE-2015-0557

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0557 describes an absolute path traversal vulnerability in the open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22, affecting ARJ software and Fedora distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files by crafting ARJ archives with paths containing multiple leading slashes that are not properly removed. With a CVSS score of 5.8, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and requires no authentication, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.10.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arj_software:arj_archiver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0334 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154518.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154605.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155011.html
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Exploit
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-15
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3213
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/5
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/05/9
securityfocus.com / bid/71895